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Maria Shine Stewart posted an update on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
By March 24!! Ideas wanted on actual and envisioned working conditions for “A Tale of Two Classrooms,” one of two MLA 2023 sessions sponsored by HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty issues … What conditions inhibit or inspire your teaching and student learning? How can we better shape space to promote community? 250-word abstract and short b…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart posted an update on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Deadline approaching! Please consider submitting a proposal to one of two MLA 2023 sessions sponsored by HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty issues … “Courage Beyond Covid 19: Literature and Language for Healing”–Taking off masks, we may feel free – or raw, exposed. Using literary art as a guide, what characters, works, and themes invoke…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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David Laurence's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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David Laurence deposited Tenure in 2017: A Per Institution View in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoAs advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]
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David Laurence deposited Tenure in 2017: A Per Institution View on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago
As advocacy to increase tenure-track academic career opportunities for PhD recipients and reverse institutions’ abuse of an immiserated class of adjunct instructors has long deplored, the portion of the faculty with tenure or on the tenure track has declined to under a third of the academic workforce, while the segment with part-time appointments…[Read more]
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Reminder–Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
GS Nonfiction Prose on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]Overview:
The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that p…[Read more]
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Nicole B. Wallack started the topic CFP: Deadline extended to July 31, 2019 — Call for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay in the discussion
RCWS Writing Pedagogies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoCall for Proposed Chapters: The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay [Extended Deadline]
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The Edinburgh Companion to the Essay provides an overview of the theories, histories, contexts and forms of the essay as well as of current debates around the genre and its extensions. The co-editors seek brief (300-word) proposals for chapters that…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic An Inside HIgher Ed Essay — Just Sharing … Written in July 2016 in the discussion
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 7 years agohttps://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/07/21/how-improve-teaching-conditions-adjunct-faculty-members-essay Nothing fancy here, but a dean at one of my schools contacted me after it ran.
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic Achy Obejas at the MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoGoing to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal posted an update on MLA Commons 7 years ago
Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years ago
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Rosemary G. Feal's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month ago
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Maria Shine Stewart's profile was updated on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Maria Shine Stewart started the topic From Candidate Maria Shine Stewart in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoI first observed the starkly different working conditions of full-time and part-time faculty as an English department secretary many years ago. Fast forward 35 years: Too little has changed at too few institutions for larger and larger numbers of adjunct, non-tenure-track, term, or contingent faculty. I teach at up to four northeast Ohio colleges…[Read more]
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Maria Shine Stewart changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Maria Shine Stewart changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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